McAfee suit against WilmerHale dismissed

Late last week, Judge Michael H. Schneider of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas dismissed in its entirety the suit brought by software giant McAfee of Santa Clara, Calif., against the Boston and Washington, D.C., firm of WilmerHale on four independent grounds, including failure to state a legally valid claim.

McAfee had questioned the law firm’s $12 million in legal fees, alleging that WilmerHale “intentionally overworked and churned the representation of [McAfee’s ex-chief financial officer Prabhat] Goyal; shamelessly employing over 100 WilmerHale timekeepers in the feeding frenzy,” the website Law.com reported.

In a late-July statement released to the press, WilmerHale countered that the lawsuit is “no more than a pretext to avoid its advancement duties to Mr. Goyal.”